Gateway to the West
Named after Louis IX of France, St. Louis is a city filled with history. Now home to Anheuser-Busch and the Gateway Arch, St. Louis was once home to some of our SRM artists: Charles Russell, Oscar Berninghaus & Herbert Herget. Downtown St. Louis. Image courtesy Timothy K Hamilton. Born in St. Louis in 1864, Charles Marion Russell grew up in Oak Hill at his family's manor-style house near present-day Tower Grove Park, a site of picnics and Sunday gatherings for the best families of St. Louis. For Russell, it was a great area in which to ride his [...]